Interesting in the world: Battery of sugar
Scientists from the Tokyo University of Science have suggested the possibility of creating a battery of ordinary sugar. According to their opinion, using sugar, it is possible to make a more capacious battery compared to lithium-ion. This option will be different cheapness and reliability.
Today, the main advantages of sodium-ion batteries are their relatively low price and long enough life, but they continue to yield to lithium in terms of capacity and performance.
Specialists under the leadership of Shinichi Komaba are working to increase productivity in the technological field. They recently found out that sucrose (the main component of all sugars) can serve as a material for the invention of inexpensive and effective components intended for sodium-ion batteries.
In the process of hydrolysis, specialists obtained from sucrose solid carbon, which serves as the anode in sodium batteries. To obtain this carbon, sucrose was heated to a temperature of 1500 ° C with no access to oxygen.
As a result, it was found out that the use of solid carbon from sucrose in the anode of a sodium-ion battery makes it possible to increase its capacity by almost 20%.
It’s too early to talk about the early ousting of the usual lithium-ion batteries, but Associate Professor Shinichi Komaba and a group of scientists are planning to develop a commercial and quite competitive version of the sodium-ion battery.
